Fw: Re: Release plans

James Mckenzie jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
Fri May 21 13:47:17 CDT 2010


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>From: James Mckenzie <jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net>
>Sent: May 21, 2010 8:20 AM
>To: Joerg-Cyril.Hoehle at t-systems.com
>Subject: Re: Release plans
>
>Joerg-Cyril.Hoehle at t-systems.com wrote: 
>>
>>>> And I didn't write trivial Mac patches either, e.g. to have
>>>> wineprefixcreate symlink c:\users\xyz\ Desktop + Videos + Documents +
>>>> Music to /Users/xyz/Desktop/ etc.  This happens on Linux, not on MacOS.
>>>> That's another (example of a) missing element.
>>>> (Why didn't I write it? Because I was unsure where to put the #ifdef)
>>>Isn't that linking done relative to $HOME, which should resolve to
>>>/Users/xyz on Mac?
>>That's not the problem. What I also don't know is whether I could hardcode
>>the directories ~/Documents etc.
>
>AFIAK, I would not hard code them, but give a default of $HOME/Documents and $HOME/Desktop (this would allow users to change the directory, maybe through the registry or through environment variables. (these already exist in my /Users/xyz,
>>but what about Tiger?
>
>I don't think there are many Intel Macs running Tiger anymore and Darwine is completely dead.
>
>>or whether I ought to call some OSX API that
>>yields the name of the dir (and possibly creates it if it does not yet exist).
>
>This is a third idea that we may want to look at.
>
>>I'm not familiar at all with Mac APIs, but it sounds like an easy patch
>>for somebody with a little MacOS programming knowledge.
>>
>Hmmm.
>>
>>>> What can Mac users expect from this release?
>>>Hopefully, conversion to Linux :-).
>>Actually, one day I was fed up with the Gnome and KDE4 GUIs,
>>so I started looking for something else. The Mac Mini with
>>NVidia came out right at that time: extremely silent (except
>>for the CD-ROM), excellent graphics (by far better than
>>any onboard Intel I knew previously) and it's a UNIX.
>>
>My feelings exactly.  If Gnome and KDE were so good, why are there other Linux windows management tools?
>
>James McKenzie




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